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The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions: With the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. [...] Vol. II

by: Shakespeare, William ; Collier, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.)

Publication date: 1842

Publisher: Whittaker & Co. [Gilbert and Rivington, Printers]

Collection: bibliotheca_fictiva; Johns_Hopkins_University; americana

Contributor: The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Language: English

Item Size: 1.1G

Full title: The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions: With the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. In eight volumes. Vol. II.

Second of 8 vols. in 8vo. ff. [2], pp. 563, [1]. Original cloth. Contains bookmark of W. F. Watson, Bookseller & Stationer, Edinburgh.

Content: Measure for measure ; The comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice.

Many of the questioned data derive from earlier works by Collier. See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A46.

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